Woodworking blog entries tagged with 'handle fix'

I have quite a few vintage Stanley plane totes that look like this. Seems to be a very common form of damage, guess maybe the first thing to hit the ground when they fall.
First thing I did was clean up and straighten out the damaged area with a sharp chisel, and then on my granite slab with sandpaper on it.
This one was damaged far enough down that the counter-bore was gonna be an issue. The hole had to be drilled before being glued on there. I just eyeballed the angle at first.
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